Commissioners of Lincoln Park v. Fahrney
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree entered by the circuit court of Cook county denying the relief prayed in the original and supplemental bills filed by the Commissioners of Lincoln Park, appellants, and granting relief to appellee, Fahrney, upon his cross-bill.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree entered by the circuit court of Cook county denying the relief prayed in the original and supplemental bills filed by the Commissioners of Lincoln Park, appellants, and granting relief to appellee, Fahrney, upon his cross-bill. The original bill was filed by the appellants in 1897 against John Lewis Cochran, then the owner of blocks 1, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 21, in Cochran’s addition to Edgewater, city of Chicago. The property described is a subdivision of the east fractional…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
The principal issues raised by the pleadings are: First, whether the title to the submerged lands opposite appellee’s lots is in appellants. That it is, is denied by appellee on the ground that the act of 1895 and subsequent acts are unconstitutional, and also because it is claimed that appellee’s lots extended 715 feet further into the lake than the present shore line, and parts of them were wrenched and torn away by violent avulsions of nature between 1872 and 1877 or 1880. Second, whether, by reason of appellee’s lots abutting upon Lake Michigan, he is thereby vested, as riparian owner,…
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